Chase Tenpenny punts the ball during a game against UC Davis at Mackay Stadium on Saturday, August 7, 2013. Also pictured is Colin Kelly of UC Davis. Ross Brinkerhoff/ RGJ.

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Chase Tenpenny was in his first season as Nevada's punter in 2012, the junior-college transfer having redshirted in 2011, when an older gentleman who said he used to be coach Chris Ault's coach started chatting with him on the sidelines during a practice.

"He came up to me and said, 'Do you know who holds the longest-punt record?'" Tenpenny said before Tuesday's practice. "I said, 'No,' and he told me the whole story, the 99-yard punt. I thought that was pretty cool."

The older gentleman was Dick Trachok, Nevada athletic director emeritus and the coach at Nevada in the 1960s when Ault played. ...